When Ramakrishna was undergoing the pain of throat cancer....Pundit Śaśadhar one day suggested to the Master (Ramakrishna) that the
latter could remove the illness by concentrating his mind on the throat,
the scriptures having declared that yogis had power to cure themselves
in that way. The Master rebuked the pundit. "For a scholar like you to make such a proposal!" he said. "How can I withdraw the mind from the Lotus Feet of God and turn it to this worthless cage of flesh and blood?""For our sake at least", begged Narendra (Vivekananda) and the other disciples. "But", replied Sri Ramakrishna, "do you think I enjoy this suffering? I wish to recover, but that depends on the Mother."Narendra: "Then please pray to Her. She must listen to you."Master: "But I cannot pray for my body."Narendra: "You must do it, for our sake at least."Master: "Very well, I shall try."A few hours later the Master said to Narendra - "I said to Her,
'Mother, I cannot swallow food because of my pain. Make it possible for
me to eat a little.'She pointed you all out to me and said: 'What? You are eating enough through all these mouths. Isn't that so?' I was ashamed and could not utter another word."The ego always wants Truth when it is ready. It says, 'I am ready now. I am pure, available.'But Truth does not come when the ego is ready. Truth comes when the Heart is ready, because Truth and Heart are One.You have to turn away from the ego. Jesus himself says, ‘Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me.’ It means: Deny your personal self, deny your arrogance, deny your ego, your seemingly cozy little identity. Drop it. Turn away from it. Don't give any energy to it. And ‘take up your cross’ means what? Whatever it is that life brings, attend to that, but don’t be asking for the fruits of it. Don't be claiming any doer-ship of it. Just move because life compels you to move. And like this you find yourself in the presence of God. You don’t know how. You cannot boast. You cannot say, 'I meditated for 16 hours non-stop and I didn’t even breathe.' You cannot say or do anything. All happened by the Grace of God.

~ MoojiThe reason it takes so long to become self-realized and become free is
you're looking to do something and in truth there is absolutely nothing
to do. There is nothing to do to become free and liberated - What is
there to do? If you say, "I have to try", you're saying the
hallucination has to try. Thinking that this is the truth and you have
to identify with something to become higher. No. All you have to do is
remain still, that is all. Remain quiet, still. Nothing to do. Nothing
to become. If you try to become something you get caught in the world of
cause and effect and you will have all kinds of problems. But if you've
made the mind still and quiet then there is no-one to identify with
anything and you become free. You don't become free, you awaken to the
freedom that you already are.Ponder this. ~ Robert AdamsIt is only when you become an empty vessel that the truth, which you
really are, can shine fourth. When you have too much head knowledge you
keep yourself back. When you have too much book knowledge, you keep
yourself from awakening. This is why words are always inadequate. You
are already liberated. ~ Robert AdamsYou and I know so many people who have been practicing spiritual practicesfor years, and years, and years, and nothing has happened to them, simply because of their practice, it's really a practitioner who's practicing.THE PRACTITIONER HAS TO GO. The person who practices has to be depleted, has to be eradicated. When there is no one left to practice, there's nobody there, aren't you? As long as there is somebody who practices, you'll always have a hard time, a problem. But when there's nobody left to practice, then you have arrived. ~ Robert AdamsWHAT IS HERE?Don't go into any direction now, because in any direction you go, the world is there and you say: ‘No, I don’t want to go there, I am already coming from there.’ Don't do anything now. It is not a doing.

You have been doing enough already.You are here. Simply abandon all intentions and remain quiet.And don't go into your head.Don't let him trouble you.You have passed him now.‘Stuck’ is only something to do with your mind.There is something that can never be stuck.It doesn't know this word or concept.It can never go anywhere.It's earlier than any concept and it is timeless.The waking state does not touch it.The dream state does not affect it.The deep sleep state does not alter it.It is you, your real nature and being.And It does not have to appear with the sound of trumpets.It does not have to come on a sunny day.It cannot leave, because it did not come.It is timelessly here. This, It is revealing. It is revealed.It is revealing itself to itself in the form of pure Being.KNOW, YOU ARE THIS.~ Mooji"You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that YOU are."~ Eckhart TolleConcentrate on the Seer, not on the seen. All that you see is false and the Seer alone is true.~ Ramana MaharshiChoice of practice depends on the choice of results.Brahman has no attributes and is beyond mindso no practice will take you to that: It is self revealing.Ramana says "Simply keep Quiet for it is Here and Now."This is the nearest practice because Brahman is your nature. ~ PapajiGod can not be seen, he is not an object of sense which can be seen. You can't see God because 'YOU' are God! How can you search for That which "YOU' are? God is not an object to be seen. He is the subject. He can not be seen, He is the seer, find this Seer. ~ PapajiEverything is in you, including me. And everything is in me, including you. And yet neither you nor I exist. Who will catch this clue? ~ MoojiAll of You are in Me. I am in All of You. There is nothing else and no
one else. I am Here, there, everywhere... All Pervasive... No one is
separate, no one is isolated. It is all one life, indivisible, total,
subtle, subtler, subtlest... Gross, grosser, grossest. But this beggar
cannot speak this language to everyone, but only to a few friends. ~
Yogi RamsuratkumarIf you ask Him to do as you please, it is not surrender but command
to Him. You cannot have Him obey you and yet think that you have
surrendered. He knows what is best and when and how to do it. Leave
everything entirely to Him. His is the burden; you have no longer any
cares. All your cares are His. Such is surrender. This is Bhakti
(devotion).Or, inquire to whom these questions arise. Dive deep
in the Heart and remain as the Self. One of these two ways is open to
the aspirant.~ Sri Ramana MaharshiYou all strike me as very funny, because you believe you are the body, you believe you are your mind, you believe you're your experiences. No matter how many times I tell you you're nothing, you won't believe me. You want to be something. Why won't you be nothing? It's fun being nothing. When you're nothing there's no world, there's no God to pray to, there are no others who can do anything to you, there's no death, there's no rebirth. There’s just nothing. Yet the nothing is everything. Be nothing. You'll love being nothing.~ Robert Adams

So now we are advised to discover the changeless on which these changes
are taking place. How is this to be done? By rejecting. Whatever
changes, reject it. Sit down coolly for some time and see. Whatever you
see, whatever you perceive or conceive or feel can be rejected.
Something will be left which you cannot reject. That is the permanent
abode of existence, consciousness, bliss and freedom. This can be done
instantly or this may take ages. ~ Papaji When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected. ~ Nisargadatta MaharajThere is no such thing as a Self-realised person. When there is no
"person" the Self is realised. When there is no "person" the question of
coming and going cannot arise. The body is an appearance in the Self.
When the body disappears the Self remains as it always was and is.
Realisation is the understanding "I am not this body which comes and
goes, I am that permanent, unchanging reality in which the body and all
else appears". ~ Papaji The recognition of the Self does not need to be a lifetime practice. ~ Mooji The point is this: It’s not what you say.It’s not what you proclaim.It’s what’s deep, deep, deep in your heart that determines what happens to you.It’s not reading books, it’s not studying, it’s not going to classes. It’s sitting by yourself, becoming quiet, going deeper and deeper within yourself.

Transcending your mind and your body until something happens.~ Robert AdamsSilenceThe silence habitual to Sri Yukteswar was caused by
his deep perceptions of the Infinite. No time remained for the
interminable "revelations" that occupy the days of teachers without
Self-realization. A saying from the Hindu scriptures is: "In shallow men
the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the
whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle."

- Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda"Autobiography of a Yogi"

149. Ramana quoting Jnana Sambandar (a prominent 7th century saint):
As the Lord is within me in my heart, no days, no planets, can affect
me adversely and every day of the week is equally auspicious.Quotable Quotes from 'Day by Day with Bhagavan'As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces Karma to ashes.~ Bhagavad GitaConsciousness means choicelessness,and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire,is to be free from all projection,is to be free from all imagination,is to be free from future. ~ OshoYou don't have to do nothing, you don't have to think anything, you don't have to feel anything to be complete. You are complete by yourself.~ SadhguruI have no birth, no death, and no duties. Never done anything either
good or bad. I am purely Brahman, the Absolute beyond all qualities. How
could either bondage or liberation exist for me? If God is pervading
immovable, whole, without any parts then there is no division in this
God at all. How then could he be regarded as within or even without. ~ Mooji The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean
like. In the same way, the self does not require the end of activity
to be more the self. ~ Mooji

Disciple: Does not the realised man continue to live just like a non-realized being?Ramana Maharishi: Yes, with this difference that the realized being does not see the world as being apart from the Self.

He possesses true knowledge and the internal happiness of being perfect, whereas the other person sees the world apart, feels imperfection and is miserable. Otherwise their physical actions are similar.~(Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi Talk 487)Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the Wearer, not the cloak ~ RumiDo not pretend that you love others as yourself. Unless you have
realized them as one with yourself, you cannot love them. Don't pretend
to be what you are not, don't refuse to be what you are. Your
love of others is the result of self-knowledge, not its cause. Without
self-realization, no virtue is genuine. When you know beyond all
doubting that the same life flows through all that is and you are that
life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously. When you realize the
depth and fullness of your love of yourself, you know that every living
being and the entire universe are included in your affection. But when
you look at anything as separate from you, you cannot love it for you
are afraid of it.

Alienation causes fear and fear deepens alienation. It is a vicious
circle. Only self-realization can break it. Go for it resolutely.~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj